Sofware Development Engineer, Core Shopping

Description

We are looking for a talented Software Development Engineer to design, build, and operate large-scale systems that power Amazon Lists. You'll work on high-traffic services and customer-facing experiences, solving complex problems in distributed systems, frontend modernization, and data-driven personalization — all while directly impacting the shopping experience for hundreds of millions of customers worldwide.

Key job responsibilities

• Design & Build: Architect and implement scalable backend services and customer-facing features across the Lists platform
• Frontend Development: Develop responsive, performant UI experiences using modern frameworks (React) to delight customers
• System Ownership: Own services end-to-end — from design through deployment, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Technical Excellence: Write clean, maintainable, well-tested code; participate in design and code reviews; raise the quality bar for the team
• Operational Health: Participate in on-call rotations, drive root-cause analysis, and build automated monitoring and alerting
• Collaboration: Partner with product managers, designers, and peer engineers to define technical solutions that meet customer needs
• Mentorship: Guide junior engineers through code reviews, design discussions, and best practices

About The Team

Amazon Lists helps hundreds of millions of customers organize and share the things they love — from wish lists and gift registries to idea boards and collections. We're entering a new chapter, applying state of the art AI to re-imagine how customers curate, discover, and connect through lists.

Basic Qualifications

• 3+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• 2+ years of non-internship design or architecture (design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and existing systems experience
• 1+ years of software development engineer or related occupational experience
• 1+ years of designing and developing large-scale, multi-tiered, multi-threaded, embedded or distributed software applications, tools, systems, and services using: C#, C++, Java, or Perl experience
• 1+ years of Object Oriented Design experience
• Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field
• Experience programming with at least one software programming language

Preferred Qualifications

• 3+ years of full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations experience
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent

Amazon is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of protected veteran status, disability, or other legally protected status.

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The base salary range for this position is listed below. Your Amazon package will include sign-on payments and restricted stock units (RSUs). Final compensation will be determined based on factors including experience, qualifications, and location. Amazon also offers comprehensive benefits including health insurance (medical, dental, vision, prescription, Basic Life & AD&D insurance and option for Supplemental life plans, EAP, Mental Health Support, Medical Advice Line, Flexible Spending Accounts, Adoption and Surrogacy Reimbursement coverage), 401(k) matching, paid time off, and parental leave. Learn more about our benefits at https://amazon.jobs/en/benefits.

USA, WA, Seattle - 143,700.00 - 194,400.00 USD annually

Company - Amazon.com Services LLC

Job ID: A10469041